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Today is officially the halfway point of our trip and we were greeted by the rolling mist waking up. It blanketed the landscape and shrouded the mountains and glaciers that we had grown accustomed to admiring, it was ...

... the same mother polar bear and cubs we had seen a few days prior. Pyramiden. Photo: Dag Avango After two hours of hiking we finally saw the fog covered settlement in the valley below. Walking through Pyramiden we saw several public buildings ...

... the previous week. Unexpectedly, we didn’t see any major change from our active readings. After we were done taking the surveys, the plan was to visit a nearby glacier. However, we were unable to reach it because of a strong stream. The ...

... back was an adventure in and of itself. The seas were quite rough and a few students didn’t take to kindly to the rocking and got quite sick. We had survived Petunia Bay and Pyramiden but the Arctic Ocean was quite the challenge. All in all ...

... beds, we gathered with our groups to explore the town. Now that we are back in Longyearbyen we started the day by looking at the built environment in some areas. We focused on buildings similar to the ones that we observed in Pyramiden last ...

... Mario Hoppman Sedan igår morse har vi fått avvika från den ordinarie planen. Vi är på väg så fort som möjligt till King George Island på grund av ett akut sjukdomsfall. Det beräknas ta oss 6 dagar att avverka distansen till en bas där flyg ...

... -1,2°C, vind 11 m/s Soluppgång 10:33, solnedgång 16:54 Expeditionen har nu kommit in i slutskedet. Vi kom fram till King George Island igår och vår patient transporterades i helikopter till ett väntande chilenskt flygplan. Det slutade med ...

... distributed amidst the modest wooden houses of Ny-Ålesund’s previous incarnation as a mining settlement. Flanking the village are the cultural heritage remains of tragedy, triumph and folly: on the southern outskirts beneath Zeppelin ...

... layers of water at different depth with shifting salinity and temperature. The winch has a cable inside the wire taking the data up to the ship and the CTD lab. The closing of the bottles are controlled from the lab. The instrument also has ...

... largest yet shallowest continental shelf sea will begin. Deploying multicorer aft deck. Photo: Örjan Gustafsson Looking at multicorer deployment at the aft deck. Photo: Örjan Gustafsson Deploying multicorer aft deck. Photo: Jorien Vonk ...

... of the earth following structures in the bedrock up into the sand filled reservoirs collecting oil and gas then leaking out upwards, as bubbles through the sea bed into the water, into the mid-water sonar, the Niskin bottles the analysis ...

... bottom permafrost. Now we are, C-D, no mixing, negative bottom temperatures and no melting at the bottom. We are ticking of stations. 25,26,27,28,29,30. One more, 31 and we are at D. D to D will be out over the slope, in a canyon, dropping ...

... up once you hit the waterline and to get up the. 3000 meters is an enormous long time. Long time standing on deck looking at the sheave slowly rotate. One sees it when looking at the yellow line we painted on all sheaves and winch drums. A ...

... 50 meters normally. If conditions allow, flat seabed and good data, captain may go as shallow as 35 meters. Icebreaking is an art where mistakes are not allowed. Never get trapped. Going in with the 35 meter depth right on our starboard and ...

... rifle and not all of them are alive. Wind at Wrangel. Too much wind. We cannot do the station. We do Multibeam, looking for something. Canyon, seeps, more? We do two lines for perhaps two days plus steaming. Met service says no change ...

... for some reason did not have the proper “numbers” printed on it and had therefore not made it into Iceland Airs booking system, despite that the ticket was booked and paid. Amazing that this could not be arranged by the airline. I ...

... the cruise. “Mid-water sonar”, calibration procedures. Foto: Martin Jakobsson During the transit to our first working area, Box 1, we had very nice weather conditions. Calm and only some small swell from the south. Oden has an array of ...

... The multibeam echo sounder mounted in the bow is used to map the sea floor. Photo: Magnus Augner Now, we are all looking forward to more science, and perhaps seeing some polar bears…

... in Barrow over the summer. A cross dressed spice girl from Wales invited us to come along and I had a great time talking to the locals and drinking scary smelling booze out of large plastic bottles. I left at 3 a.m and walked alone along the ...

First days of surveys in the working area north of Wrangel Island is now over. Our Russian colleagues have completed some long successful survey lines using ...